Automation - How to remove or replace summary text located between brackets

Question

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for some direction on how to remove or replace text from the summary if issues.

Context:
So when an issue is created, we have an automation rule that adds code names from a multi-picker field into the summary between square brackets.
So it goes from "This is the issue summary" to "[CODE NAME 1, CODE NAME 2] This is the issue summary"

Goal:
Now, I'd like to create another automation rule for when the code name field is updated to remove or replace the text within the brackets.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Mikael Sandberg · Answer

Yes, you can use substringBeforeLast(String separator) to do that.

Suzy Nicholson · Answer

That's a great suggestion. There are also some cases where we might have two sets of square brackets, is there a way to specify the last "] "

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Suzy Nicholson

You can use the "replace" function to replace text in a field using the field's smart value.

Here are a post that might help:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Can-Jira-Automation-replace-edit-part-of-the-summary-field/qaq-p/1574338

(credit to @Bill Sheboy )

And on this page you can find information about the "remove" and "replace" functions.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/automation/jira-smart-values-text-fields-993924863.html